Thursday, May 1, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly

5.1.1883
Count Albert de Dion receives a patent for a steam generator, the first of 394 patents issued to him or to his company
5.1.1901
The first Pierce Motorette is completed
5.1.1914
A. H. M. J. Ward, an electrical engineer and brother-in-law of W. O. and H. M. Bentley, joins the board of Bentley and Bentley Ltd.
5.1.1917
The first Nelson is completed
5.1.1924
The Federal-Mogul Corporation is incorporated in Michigan as a merger of the Muzzy-Lyon Company and the Federal Bearing & Bushing Corporation

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick


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